Ironing-table



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W. H. H. MARGUM.

IRONING TABLE. I No; 516,273. Patented-Mar. 13, 1894.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 516,273, dated March 13, 1894.

Application filed May 9, 1893. Serial No. 473,563- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I, WILLIAM HENRY HAR- RISON MAROUM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Ironing-Table, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in ironing tables.

The object of the present invention is to simplify and improve the construction of ironing tables, and to provide an inexpensive one, which when notin use maybe compactly folded against a wall or other support, and in which the supporting means will in no manner interfere with the use of the ironing board and the placing of garments on and removal from the same.

The invention consists in the construction and novel .combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated 1n the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings-Figure l is a perspective view of an ironing table constructed in accordance with this invention, and shown arranged in position for use. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same, the ironing table being folded. Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the ironing table, the parts being arranged as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the bracket. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the sad-iron holder. 7

Like numerals of reference indicate correspending parts in all the figures of the drawings.

1 designates an ironing board having secured at its inner end on its upper face an iron holder 2, which is provided with rearwardly upwardly inclined lugs 3 having journals 4 for engaging detachably open hookshaped bearings 5 of abracket casting 6. The ironing board is supported in its horizontal position, by an inclined brace 7, and is held, when swung upward and folded against a wall or other suitable support 8, by a resilient clamp 9, as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings.

The sad iron holder 2 is preferably constructed of cast metal, and consists of side bars 10, parallel cross-pieces 11, and front and rear end pieces 12 and 13 provided at their ends with depending feet 14 and 15, which support the body of the iron holder above the ironing board. The front end piece is providcd at its upper edge with lugs 16; and the vide a hinge connection to enable the iron- 1 ing board to be readily swung upward against the wall or support. The bracket is approximately triangular, and is provided on the outer faces of its inclined sides with the said hook-shaped or curved bearings 5; and the enlargements 17 extend outward from the front face of the bracket, and form lateral extensions of the base thereof.

The clamp is constructed of a single piece of wire centrally bent, or partially coiled to form an eye 18. The sides of the clamp are bent angularly to form L-shaped arms 19, which are resilient, and which have their outer ends bent laterally to form a flaring mouth or entrance, to enable the ironing board to be readily sprung betweenthe arms. The clamp securely holds the ironing board when the table is folded, and it enables a board to be readily sprung into and out of it.

The brace 7 is connected byhinge 20 with a transverse cleat 21 which is secured to the lower face of the ironing board, and which will prevent the latter warping. The lower end of the brace is beveled, and when the ironing board isin a horizontal position, it engages and bears upon a projection 23 extending outward from the wall or support.

It will be seen that the ironing table is simple and comparatively inexpensive in construction and is adapted to be compactly folded when not in use; that there are no legs or front braces to interfere with the free use of the ironing table; and that the latter, by

being connected with a wall as set forth, may

be conveniently and advantageously employed as an ordinary side table and be put site open hook-shaped bearings, an ironing board engaging the bottom of the bracket, and an iron-holder secured to the upper face of the ironing board and having upwardly extending lugs provided with laterally disposed journals arranged in said bearings, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON MAROUM.

I Witnesses:

SADIE CLARK, SAM S. SMITH. 

